Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind "Star Trek" - Couverture souple

Engel, Joel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0863698794 ISBN 13 : 9780863698798

Editeur : Virgin Books, 1995

Synopsis

The "Star Trek" phenomenon has grown since its creation by Gene Roddenberry, into several successful television series, numerous feature films, and a multi-million dollar merchandizing industry, including over 100 novels. This biography of Roddenberry exposes him as a contradictory and obsessive personality. Roddenberry created a vision of the future in which personal conflicts, sexism and racism are eradicated and decency and rationalism prevail. This vision proved to have worldwide appeal. But this book reveals that Roddenberry himself was beset by many of the failings he wished to see eliminated. As Joel Engel recounts the story of the creation and development of "Star Trek", drawing on over 100 sources including many of the writers, directors and stars of the "Star Trek" shows and movies, he reveals the womanising, the drinking, the drug-taking, the paranoia and the betrayals of the man behind the myth.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A no-holds-barred look at the complex and driven visionary who created Star Trek gives a backstage portrait based on inside sources that reveals the whole man, alcoholic, self-promoting, womanizing, yet intensely creative.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virgin Books
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0863698794
• ISBN 13: 9780863698798
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible